LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 7th January, 1886.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting. Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
The S.S. Don
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.45 on the night of the 21st of January, 1952, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Don, of Goole, which was at anchor half a mile west of the Middle Light Buoy, had reported that her second officer had...
Self Righting Explained By Stuart Welford
WHAT ARE THE FORCES WHICH, WHEN HARNESSED, WILL MAKE A BOAT RIGHT HERSELF? by Stuart Welford, MiMechE MRINA Research and Development Officer, RNLITHE RNLI FLEET has included selfrighting lifeboats for well over one hundred years—since 1851...
Category: Articles
Riding tandem: a round-the-island ride on a tandem
Riding tandem: A round-lhe-island ride on a tandem was part of the three-day Randonee festival of cycling on the Isle of Wight. A team of Henley enthusiasts pedalled the 62 miles in stints of five miles each, checking in at various points... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Spar
DEC. 11TH. - WALMER, KENT. The steamer Spar, of Rotterdam, had been in collision, but the life-boat’s help was not needed. - Rewards, £14 12s. 6d..
He Can Bearly Wait - Berwicks Bear,
He can bear~ly wait - Berwicks Bear, AKA crew member Alistair Laing, waits excitedly for the opening of the Berwickupon- Tweed fete on 11 August. Over 2,000people attended the event, which included a stunning search and rescue display, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late Mr. Thos. Baring, M.P., Chairman of the Institution
THIS gentleman, who had been for nearly twenty years the much-respected Chairman of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, died at Bournemouth on the 18th Nov., after a lingering illness, extending over two years. He was in the 74th year of Ms...
Category: Obituaries
The Great Gale of February, 1871
Memorial Service at Bridlington.
THIS year, as for many years past, Bridlington held a memorial service for the six Bridlington life-boatmen who lost their lives in the great gale of 10th February, 1871.
Category: Articles
Institution's Divisional Inspectors of Lifeboats By Joan Davies
A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...
Category: Articles
The Pyrene Company Ltd
THE PYRENE COMPANY LTD.
9 Grosvenor Gardens London, S.W.I Victoria 3401 Head Office and Works : BRENTFORD, MIDDLESEX Canadian Plant : TORONTO Just as ships in distress know they ca depend on the men of Britain's...
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